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His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Children
Mixed
Distress
Anxious
Several
Birth
Married
Pleasure
Giving

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